Body Positivity: Guide, Motivation, Etc

Holidays

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who celebrates and everyone who doesn't!

I hope you had a wonderful time and a great day!

Today's installation(?) is about family and dieting

We'll start with family.

Everyone has that one aunt or uncle or parent or someone who's set in their ways and extra. We all have that someone who makes comments that are unneeded and unwanted by everyone.

You probably just accept it as a part of the person's personality or just laugh it off.

I know some people like to make comments about your body and pass it off as just observing while using amplifiers like "for a ___" or "wearing that" etc.

I'm here to tell you to tell them to FUCK O-

Wait, don't.

Okay, the REAL advice is:
Those relatives were raised in a place where that was the way to describe things. Maybe some things that they describe about you are really out there, but it isn't meant to hurt you.

For example

"Your ass shows good through that skirt"

Means:

"Your ass is prominent and that skirt shows it off well"

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"You look really thin"

Means:

"I think you should eat more"

THIS ISN'T ALWAYS. I have some relatives that genuinely want to just outwardly tear you down, but most people don't.

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On to dieting

I wasn't even going to talk about this, but I brought it up because I noticed that I had some problems with this.

It's Christmas(or other holidays).

People cook and have big meals with greasy food and desserts and pop. This is a diet's worst nightmare.

My 'diet' was to only eat when I was hungry since I have a problem with eating when I'm bored or tired. With so much sugar and stuff in the house, I wound up drinking a lot of sweet shit and eating quite a bit.

Good thing I noticed it now and not later when I would feel bloated.

I think the best piece of advice--one I could've used--is to let yourself eat.

Don't worry about counting calories unless you need to. And if you have to eat more, eat more! It's one day out of the year and it's only a small part of the day, so let yourself go.

I know that's not exactly easy. It wasn't easy for me either. But if you allow your body to eat what it wants for one day, it'll motivate you-- maybe --to keep going with your diet or eating plan.

Christmas doesn't have to stress you out in terms of body image. You can be beautiful with ham and a can of Sprite.

Happy Holidays you beautiful people❤